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Re: Sending attachments
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Sending attachments |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:12:57 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> As has been pointed out, message-mode has more features than mail-mode.
>
> Yes. And Gnus has much more features than Rmail. So what? We all do
> agree that much more features means more complexity in setting things
> up. Why impose that on people who are happy with simple modes?
How, exactly, is message-mode an "imposition" on "people who are happy
with simple modes"?
* Its user-interface? [As far as I can tell, message-mode's UI
_isn't_ complex, and indeed is pretty much exactly the same as
mail-mode's (its additional functionality being largely invisible
unless you use it). I've used both many times over the years, and
never noticed anything obviously different (there are random trivial
differences like header-filling whitespace, etc, but those are not
significant -- if they actually bother people, they can easily be
changed).]
* Its resource consumption? [It doesn't seem any slower (which makes
sense, as the great bulk of the extra functionality is only used
with explicitly invoked). It's more code, but doesn't seem horribly
large by emacs standards, and additional memory used by its code
seems small compared to the rest of emacs, and shouldn't be an issue
on any modern system.]
* Is it more buggy? [Never noticed any obvious difference in this respect.]
* Is it missing useful user-customization hooks or settings that
mail-mode has?
* Does it interface badly with some other Emacs code (e.g., rmail)?
Please, please, somebody who asserts that mail-mode is necessary, give
some concrete examples as to _why_. The amount of hand-waving in this
thread is maddening...
-Miles
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